And that’s what you run into before you begin to actually consider the incredibly complicated subject at hand.

Dr. George Tiller was called “Tiller the Killer” by anti-abortionists, who despised his practice of performing late-term abortions. His backers said he did so only in tough instances, where the mother’s life was in peril.

“He has acknowledged performing abortions on some late-term patients with healthy fetuses,” the BBC wrote in a profile. “Reportedly among them were girls as young as 10, rape victims, alcoholics, drug addicts, and women who were suicidal or depressed. Some anti-abortionists, however, questioned his criteria for diagnosing depression.”

Tiller survived a murder attempt 16 years ago, and his clinic was bombed 24 years ago. He had federal protection at one point during a summer of protests. He drove everywhere in an armored car and wore a bulletproof vest at all times.

Even the anti-Americans crackpots thought he was off the deep-end about abortion: “I’d say he’s a good ol’ boy, except he was just so fanatic about abortion,” a fellow militia member told the Kansas City Star. “He was always talking about how awful abortion was. But there’s a lot of people who think abortion is awful.”

Like the left-wing radicals bombing ROTC buildings in the 60s to protest the violence war, the irony of this murder won’t go unnoticed in America.